September 5 links
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whatthekeycode.com is a handy tool for Javascript developers.
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A Proof-of-Concept of BigQuery (martinfowler.com) BigQuery performed well, and could benefit organisations with Big Data and smaller budgets, especially those without a data warehouse, or whose data warehouse has restricted use.
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Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
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Spark can be seen as a declarative version of jQuery. jQuery is imperative. To get work done in jQuery, you tell it to carry out a series of actions: “Find these nodes. Add this class to them. Replace this thing with that.” Spark is declarative. You tell it how you want the page to look, and not only does it make the page look that way, it keeps the page updated as data changes. Spark weighs in at 8k gzipped and minified, including all of its dependencies, and it’s easily separable from the rest of Meteor.
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Oculus Rift is a great Kickstarter project, but I was two days too late to fund this one. Guess I’ll wait for the consumer version…
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Print on Fabric Using Sunlight: The Lumi Process on Kickstarter has led to the product called Lumi.
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Revolights on Kickstarter.